The Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Information Center (MASIC) was officially dedicated on June 18 with a special tribute to Provost Tilden Edelstein for his role in creating the center. “MASIC was created with the help of Tilden Edelstein-the single greatest contribution to our facilities since I have been at Stony Brook,” said MSRC director Jerry Schubel. “I hope it will serve as a model in the way the university moves in the future.”
Roger Kelly, head of MASIC, explained that the workstations available for use by all Stony Brook students, faculty, and staff, offer greater flexibility than the terminals in the main and other branch libraries, which are dedicated to searching STARS, the on-line catalog service at Stony Brook. MASIC workstations, on the other hand, offer networked CD ROM databases for MSRC research, access to STARS and other facilities on the campus network, as well as access to the Internet’s several hundred participating libraries around the world.
“This type of installation offers the flexibility to adapt to the evolving technologies of libraries,” said Kelly. During the dedication, the workstations were connected to local CD ROMS, the STARS catalog on campus, Cornell’s library catalog, and the University of Queensland in Australia
